Once upon a time, Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com said:
Michael K. Johnson johnsonm@redhat.com:
I'll get it started. There are a few pages in sufficient flux that I might miss adding the $Date$ strings in, but I think that once you see "This page last modified at:" on the web site, you can be reasonably sure that pages that don't show that text at the bottom haven't been recently modified.
There's a easier way. I use this Javascript fragment in my headers:
<gag> Javascript! </gag>
If you want something that is automatic (and doesn't restrict the browsers and configurations of visitors to get useful information), you can use an Apache server side include:
<!--#config timefmt="%A %B %d, %Y" --> This file last modified <!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED" -->